Official Announcement - Pull Tester is back

[Ian]

So a while ago the Pull Tester mysteriously disappeared from the build server, causing it to stop working.  Due to a lack of time on my part it took a while to bring it back.  I took the opportunity to take advantage of some of the fine work that Nikolai Plath has done in making significant improvements to the code and building in features that I had had on my mind for a while but did not have the time/motivation to implement.

The result of this is that you can now see a report of the currently active pull requests at http://developer.joomla.org/pulls/.  This helps us by allowing us to ensure that code has been tested and meets coding standards before we accept the pull request.  It makes it easier for contributors by allowing contributors to see what problems there might be with their code.  It is a significant improvement over what was there because you can now see not only that some tests failed but you can see exactly which tests they were.  If the tests fail completely you can see why that happened.

This should help us to continually improve the quality of our code base and help us to maintain our commitment to build stability.

A huge debt of thanks is owed to Nikolai who took the time to implement these major feature improvements.  If you want to see the current code that is running you can check it out at https://github.com/ianmacl/pulltester/tree/elkuku.  This is more or less a clone of https://github.com/elkuku/pulltester with a few tweaks to adapt it for a later version of the platform.

We all should be hugely appreciative of the work that Nikolai has done.  It has made the contribution workflow much smoother and has significantly enhanced the ability of the platform to evolve.

Ian